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'Ambulance delays risk killing stroke patients'
Daily Express
|December 28, 2024
LIVES will be lost or damaged forever as the NHS is hit by winter chaos from Covid, infections and flu, a stroke charity has warned.
NHS England data shows the latest average response time for Category 2 ambulance calls, which include strokes, was 42 minutes and 26 seconds - the longest this year.
Stroke is the UK's fourth leading cause of death and because 1.9 million brain cells die every minute a patient is left untreated, speedy specialist ward treatment is crucial.
Procedures like thrombectomy and thrombolysis can make the difference between someone leaving hospital walking, in a wheelchair, or even alive.
Stroke Association chief executive, Juliet Bouverie, said: "Far too many stroke patients are left with no option but to sit and watch the time tick by as they wait for lifesaving treatment.
This story is from the December 28, 2024 edition of Daily Express.
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